"The Boys Dormitories, Tumutumu". Photograph of a number of stone built single story buildings with red roofs. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenya’s most populous ethnic group.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68736
- Date published
- 1905/1940
- Dates
- 1905/1940
- Format
- Lantern slides
- Pages
- 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Kenya
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-m68736 [Legacy record ID]; imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS7-022.tif
- Rights
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/da97cc625622defc7f2694989b3a3fcf
